User:Ephebi
User:Ephebi
Interests: Victoriana, Middle East history, Industrial archaeology, Building, Civil engineering and historic civil engineers, South London, Biographies relating to West Norwood Cemetery. I also edit some areas where I have professional experience, for WP at the moment this is notably in the areas around carbon trading, transportation planning/transport economics, & technology
Victorian funerary symbolism, architecture, terms & glossary[edit]
- Acanthus (ornament) decorating Corinthian order columns
- Acroterion and Acroteria angularia on corners
- Alto-relievo
- Ante-fixae
- anthemion aka Palmette
- Arabesque patterning
- Arch of keystone, voussoirs & Imposts w. extrados & Intrados
- Bas-relief
- Boss (architecture)
- Broken column
- Bucranium or Ox-head
- Cairn
- 4 Cardinal virtues: prudence temperance fortitude & justice
- Cartouche (design) aka cartoccia
- Category:Columns and entablature
- Category:Ornaments
- Collonade
- Columbarium & recordia
- Corbel
- Crocket
- Cymatium cornice moulding
- Dentil
- Entablature on top of a Capital or Collonade
- Finial
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture
- Guilloché interlinked circular moulding
- Groove on a Doric order column
- headstone symbolism
- 7 Holy virtues: chastity abstinence liberality diligence patience kindness & humility
- Masonic symbolism: Square & compasses 24"-rule Eye of Providence pyramid of Giza Acacia Maul & Gavel Perfect Ashlar Blazing star 2-columns(Jachin & Boaz)
- Mausoleum
- Metope between triglyphs in a Doric frieze above the architrave
- Neoclassicism
- Obelisk
- Patera disks on ceiling coffers or Rotunda
- Pediment
- Peristyle or Pseudoperipteral columns on a stepped Stylobate
- Pilaster, lower in relief than Engaged columns found on Cella
- Pteron, a Peristyle on a high Podium
- Rock of Ages
- Romanesque architecture
- Rosette (design)
- Rusticated vs Ashlar finish
- Sarcophagus
- 3 Theological virtues: Faith Hope & Charity
- Tracery
- Funerary urn aka cinerary urn
- Volute on an Ionic order or Composite order column
Materials:[edit]
Victorian builders of the modern world[edit]
Civil engineers buried in WNC:
- George Henry Andrews: railway surveyor & artist
- Captain Samuel Brown RN?: chains & suspension bridges
- Richard Henry Brunton: Japanese lighthouses & plasterwork
- Sir George Buchanan (engineer): harbours
- Alfred Burges: docks, lighthouses, roads, bridges & railways
- Sir Henry Bessemer: steel process
- Sir William Cubitt: bridges viaducts, canals, Crystal Palace
- William Carpmael: Cheshire saltworks, Metropolitan Board of Works
- George Drysdale Dempsey, railways & author of civil engineering studies
- Sir Robert Francis Fairlie: railways & railway engines
- Joshua Field: co-founded ICE, ships' blocks
- James Henry Greathead: tunnelling & London Underground
- Henry Grissell: Regents Canal Iron Foundry, Buck Palace
- John William Grover: UK & Venez. railways, Albert Hl, waterworks
- John Hughes: ironmaster of Hughesovska
- Richard Reader Harris: UK & Bolivian railways, barrister, evangelist
- Sir John Jackson MP: marine works
- Robert Mallet: railways, bridges & seismology
- Joseph Maudsley: marine steam engines & screws with Joshua Field
- William Mills: Snr engineer of London, Chatham & Dover Railway
- Thomas Sopwith (geologist): French railways & mining
- John Webster (engineer): piers, bascule & suspension bridges
- Alfred Williams: gasworks at Crystal palace, Bromley, Croydon
- Robert Wingate: Canada, Russia, Hungarian, Uraguay railways
- Alexander Wright: Western Gas Light Co, gaslights in mines
Architects interred in WNC (also see British architects):
- Charles Baily: assistant to City of London architect
- John Belcher: architect of London buildings & Colchester
- William Burges (architect): son of Alfred Burges
- Thomas Talbot Bury: churches & watercolour painter
- John Jenkins Cole: architect to Stock Exchange
- Henry Currey: RIBA pres, St Thomas', Buxton Pump Room
- Charles Henry Driver: Crossness, railway stations
- Philip Mainwaring Johnston: churches, Great War memorials
- Sir Horace Jones: architect to the City of London
- James Knowles Snr: Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria Stn, Cintra
- Arthur Beresford Pite: Director, LCC School of Building
- Sir William Tite MP: Gothic railway stations & cemeteries
- Ebenezer Trotman: railways, principal assistant to Tite
- James Wier: nonconformist churches & Westinghouse Brake Co
- William Huff Wontner: Holland & Sons furniture designer
Architects & designers who worked on WNC:
- Sir William Tite MP: see above
- Thomas Allom GII for George Dodd MP
- Anderson & McKenzie, scuptors, John Stevens' GII obelisk
- Edward Middleton Barry GII temple Ralli & GII* Berens
- William Burges GII* Alfred Burges
- George Godwin architectural journalist, GII* John Britton
- John Oldrid Scott GII* St Stephen's Greek Orthodox Chapel
- George Edmund Street GII* JP Ralli & St Luke's
- Robert Stark Wilkinson, architect, GII Henry Doulton
Construction & materials
- John Marriott Blashfield: mosaic & terracotta manufacturer
- Paul Emile Chappuis: daylight reflectors & diffractors
- Joseph Bernard Clark: ornamental fibrous plasterer
- Benjamin Colls & William Abraham Colls: contractors
- John Dibblee Crace, father John, g-father Frederick: architectural decorator, Brighton Pavilion, Houses of Parliamant
- Thomas Cubitt: builder of Belgravia & Buckingham Palace
- Charles Larkin Francis: early cement manufacturer
- Christopher Gabriel & son Sir Thomas Lord Mayor: timber merchant
- John George Hammack: timber merchant, surveyor to City of London
- William Higgs: contractor, Nat His Museum, Spurgeon's Tabernacle
- George Jennings: Sanitary works, rubber taps, Scutari hospital
- George Myers: contractor for many of Pugin's works
- Frederick Nettlefold: wood screws & fixings
- John Oakey: sandpaper
- Frederick Ransome: artificial sandstone, slag & lime cement
- James John Stevens & son John: railway signals & gaslights
- Tredwell Brothers: John & Thomas, railway contractors
Electrical engineers
- Alexander Muirhead: telegraphy & electrocardiogram
- James Wimshurst: shipwright surveyor, electrostatics
- John George Appold: Fen drainage & 1st Transatlantic cable
- John Peter Gassiot: voltaic batteries, vacuum tubes & Kew observatory